jaxad0127 wrote:The spore-shooting mushrooms would be good enemies (stationary and auto attacking).

Thoughts of such enemies have occurred to me. I had an idea for one monster that is a giant, floating puffball mushroom. Attacking it causes it to release toxic spores, and killing it will make the thing explode, releasing it's poisonous spores over an area.

EDIT: Well, TMW seems to run a little better under Arch Linux, with a speed increase of 3~5 FPS. As well, Tiled runs significantly faster. The speed increases for it vary between a 50% to 200% increase in speed, depending on what I'm doing. This'll make the mapping much easier.

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Falcata wrote:Thoughts of such enemies have occurred to me. I had an idea for one monster that is a giant, floating puffball mushroom. Attacking it causes it to release toxic spores, and killing it will make the thing explode, releasing it's poisonous spores over an area.

I like the idea. I think they should be non-intellegent though. Just floating around, maybe releasing poisones spores at random all the time. Like an area of effect spell.

Don't concern yourself with making anything too complex for the current server, since it's not worth the effort. Using the current mushroom map on the current server is great and I'm sure will satisfy a few people, but its a waste of time and energy to get complex with it. Any creatures you have should be no more complex than the ones that are currently implemented.

That said, brainstorming ideas for the new server is just fine. ..and I'm sure the new server will ultimately be able to portray any creatures you can think up. (within reason, of course.. )

edit: How about a mushroom that does the whole "mushroom-growing-on-your-head" thing, like in Earthbound. When you get mushroomed, your movement controls randomly recalibrate, so that about the time you figure out the new calibration and have taken a few steps, it changes again. Just as an idea for expanding on the status-ailments, so it's not just poison, poison, poison. ..

Regarding "interesting" ailments, how about hallucination? In the rogue-like Moria game there's a hallucination mushroom. If you accidentally eat it (not knowing what it will do), you will see random monsters appear around you, for a limited time.
Even in that text-based game this is surprisingly real; if you suddenly see some "L"s and "V"s and lots lower-case characters around you, you inevitably break to sweat . If you walk into such a hallucinated character, it disappears (IIRC they also disappear every few moves, but new "monsters" come up as well). But there are also real monsters between the fake ones; so you can't just walk along, because one of those V's might be a real Vampire...

In that game, there was the additional problem with hallucination that you couldn't just use the usual "rest for 200 turns" command, because the rest would be interrupted whenever a monsters moved (read: always)... So you had to press the "rest" key around 400 times until the effect was gone - all the time seeing the monsters around you

oliver wrote:Regarding "interesting" ailments, how about hallucination? In the rogue-like Moria game there's a hallucination mushroom. If you accidentally eat it (not knowing what it will do), you will see random monsters appear around you, for a limited time.
Even in that text-based game this is surprisingly real; if you suddenly see some "L"s and "V"s and lots lower-case characters around you, you inevitably break to sweat . If you walk into such a hallucinated character, it disappears (IIRC they also disappear every few moves, but new "monsters" come up as well). But there are also real monsters between the fake ones; so you can't just walk along, because one of those V's might be a real Vampire...

In that game, there was the additional problem with hallucination that you couldn't just use the usual "rest for 200 turns" command, because the rest would be interrupted whenever a monsters moved (read: always)... So you had to press the "rest" key around 400 times until the effect was gone - all the time seeing the monsters around you

hmm, regarding hallucination, maybe some particle or overlay effect can come to use...

Well, the problem with that is that the game is open source. A person could just edit the particle definition files so that they don't do anything. The monster hallucination thing would be easier, since the server could just be modified to send false monster data to the client of a hallucinating character.

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It is not really hard to make the false monsters undistinguishable from the real ones. It is not a problem for the server to send data about false monsters that looks exactly like data for real ones. When a character hallucinates the server could just spawn and process some additional monsters that behave normally but only interact with the hallucinating character. The server could even send false damage data to the client. It would be pretty convincing.

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I like green on the walls, but I think it should be on the walls, like moss and junk like that. Maybe there should still be a few patches of bare, cave wall poking through the green. It would probably only be a small difference in color, but it'd be a moderate difference in texture. (like moss against rock, for the sake of the example)